A detail from the map of Disko Bay we posted last week.
And check out the modern Google Maps satellite version! I think the juxtaposition here is really awesome.
Our interns Alex and Annie, aided by curator Genevieve LeMoine, inspect a hand-drawn map of Disko Bay in Greenland. This map was made on the Crocker Land expedition, between 1913 and 1917.
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Behind the tunik mask. Frobisher Bay, N.W.T., [Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), Nunavut], 1968.
Credit: Charles Gimpel / Library and Archives...
Inuit, Cape Dorset, N.W.T., [Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut], 1929.
Credit: J.D. Soper / Library and Archives Canada / e002213414
I have been thinking a lot about Inuit photographers and photography lately in connection to my various projects. Thought I would share these two...
Hares of the Arctic
UAF graduate student Michelle Cason holds two specimens from a recent donation from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game,...
Sometimes bad things happen to good films.
In this case three feet (or about five seconds in running time) of perforations and about 1/4th of the...
A very animated dog sled team, just in time the finish of this year’s Iditarod Trail race, courtesy of Admiral Byrd’s Third Antarctic Expedition.
American officers frequently employed reindeer teams in crossing the Dwina River and in going about Archangel. Here are two officers with a...
You have no idea how badly I wish I woulda thought of this first…
The Handy Hypotenuse Hankie
Darn you Professional...
Haiokok of the Copper Inuit wearing a traditional style of winter clothing.
Coronation Gulf, N.W.T., [Nunavut], 1931
Credit: Canada. Indian and...
